Heinrich Fanta

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Heinrich Fanta

Heinrich Fanta (born August 26, 1877 in Vienna , † February 9, 1941 in Brno ) was an Austrian architect and professor and rector at the German Technical University in Brno .

Life

Heinrich Fanta studied at the Vienna University of Technology from 1896 to 1900 ; he was a student of Karl König . Between 1901 and 1903 he worked as a freelance architect and as an assistant in the department for commercial buildings at the Vienna University of Technology. In 1902 he became a member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . From 1904 to 1914 he ran the joint architecture office Kühn & Fanta in Reichenberg with Max Kühn (1877–1944) . As a representative of home style designed and together they built a series of buildings in Liberec and the surrounding area.

In March 1904 he became a teacher at the state trade school, the later state engineering school in Reichenberg, later Liberec in northern Bohemia, and worked with the architect Max Kühn. Fanta was initially a frontline soldier from 1914 ( First World War ); from 1916 division manager for railway projects in Fiemme and Grödnertal .

On April 13, 1918, shortly before the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , he became professor for the encyclopedia of building construction, and since 1939 chair for design and building theory at the German Technical University in Brno. From 1924 he had an architecture office in Reichenberg ( Liberec ) in the newly formed Czechoslovakia . From 1924 to 1925 and 1931 to 1933 he was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering and from 1925 to 1926 and 1933 to 1934 Rector of the German Technical University in Brno. In 1926 he became a member of the German-Moravian Art Association, which he took over as chairman in 1939.

In the autumn of 1940 he fell ill with pneumonia, the consequences of which he died. He was cremated on February 11, 1941 and his urn was buried in Brno.

Act

Together with his professional colleagues Vinzenz Baier , Emil Tranquillini and Emil Leo, he was one of the younger generation of architects at the German Technical University in Brno. He tried to combine modern architectural tendencies with regional traditions in Moravia, as well as northern and eastern Bohemia.

Together with Max Kühn (born October 8, 1877 in Trautenau ( Trutnov ), † June 14, 1944 in Reichenberg) he designed the chapel and parish church in Ruppersdorf near Reichenberg (1906, 1911), the anniversary church in Reichenberg, office building and the like. a. the Chamber of Commerce, Creditanstalt, Riunione Adriatica, factory buildings, public buildings as well as villas and residential buildings for workers in industrial companies. Emil Tranquillini (1884–1955) and later his son Friedrich, called Fritz Fanta (1906–1988), were among his employees .

Buildings (selection)

Buildings (Kühn & Fanta)

  • before 1906: Villa Willy von Klinger in Neustadt an der Tafelfichte (Nové Město pod Smrkem) (with Max Kühn and H. Aichinger), demolished
  • around 1906: Crypt chapel of the Johann Etrich family in Trautenau (Trutnov), Husitská (with Max Kühn)
  • 1906–1907: Pilgrimage Church of Our Lady "U Obrázku" (At the picture) in Liberec-Ruprechtice, Horská (with Max Kühn), under monument protection ÚSKP no. 22323 / 5-4171
  • 1906: Temporary buildings for the German Bohemian Exhibition in Reichenberg in 1906 (pavilion of the Medinger & Co. and Trautenau breweries as well as a memorial for Emperor Joseph II in Teplitz) (with Max Kühn)
  • 1907/08: Villa and outbuildings for the factory owner Felix Czjzek, Edler von Smidaich (1879–1950) in Haindorf (Hejnice), Lázeňská 434–436 (with Max Kühn), builder: Rudolf Hampel, now a youth home, under regional monument protection no. 731207
  • 1908–1910: Employee houses in Theodor Liebieg's area in the Josephinental (with Max Kühn)
  • 1908–1911: Building complex for the Johann Liebieg & Co. company in Liberec-Perštýn, building of the first weaving mill (Blaupunkt) and second weaving mill, Mlýnská 2 / Klicperova 1 (with Max Kühn); later the Textilana company
  • 1908–1910: Church and rectory of St. Anthony of Padua in Liberec-Ruprechtice, Markova 299/4 (with Max Kühn), under monument protection ÚSKP no. 44117 / 5-5597
  • 1910: Reconstruction of the Kleinskal Castle for the manufacturer Wilhelm von Medinger (1878–1934), Malá Skála No. 211 (with Max Kühn), under monument protection ÚSKP No. 34499 / 5-72
  • 1910/11: Villa Emil Tausche in Liberec, Vrbova 861/6 (with Max Kühn)
  • 1909–1911: Capuchin hospice and anniversary church of St. Maria-Magdalena (for the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I ) in Liberec-Jeřáb, Jungmannova 333/23 (with Max Kühn), under monument protection ÚSKP no. 41331 / 5-4154
  • 1910: Expansion of the workshops at the Josef Knobloch house in Liberec, Železná No. 249/12 - Frýdlantská (with Max Kühn)
  • around 1911: Villa of Willy and Alfred Ginzkey, Liberec-Vratislavice nad Nisou (with Max Kühn)
  • 1911–1913: Bohemian Escomptebank (today's ČSOB-Bank) in Liberec-Jeřáb, 1. máje 79/18 (with Max Kühn)
  • around 1912: Administration building of the J. Ginzkey suitcase factory in Liberec-Vratislavice nad Nisou, Tanvaldská 345 (with Max Kühn)
  • before 1914: Gartenstadt settlement in Trutnov, Zahradní Město (with Max Kühn)
  • 1912–1914: District administration building (District Office) in Trutnov, Pražská 169 (with Max Kühn)

Later buildings

  • 1921: Administration building of Juta Ltd. in Prague , Štěpánská 621/34
  • 1922: Reconstruction of the Villa Oberländer in Eipel (Úpice), ul. A. Hejny 133
  • before 1925: houses for the Moravian Escomptebank in Brno , Úvoz 490/25 and 492/27 (with Emil Tranquillini)
  • 1925: Administration building and turbine hall of a cotton mill in Hronov (with Emil Tranquillini)
  • 1927/28: Oskar Novotný's villa in Braunau , Šalounova 127
  • 1932: Villa Buxbaum in Úpice, Tyršova 351

drafts

  • 1906: Design for the Kreuzinger library in Eger (Cheb), Obrněné brigády 595/1 (with Max Kühn)
  • before 1910: design for a gallery in Reichenberg (with Max Kühn)
  • before 1910: Design for a secondary school in Kufstein (Tyrol) (with Max Kühn)
  • 1914: Design for the crematorium in Reichenberg (with Max Kühn)
  • 1916: Railway station projects: Cavalese, Castello, Montan, Pausa, Auer-Markt, Kaltenbrunn, Kalditsch and San Lugano in Val di Fiemme (Fleimstal) in South Tyrol
  • 1927/28: Design for the construction of a German theater in Brno (with Emil Tranquillini)
  • 1929: Design of a new town hall in Gablonz (with Emil Tranquillini)
  • 1930: Project for the construction of the General Pension Institute in Brno, Burešova 20 (with Vinzenz Baier)

literature

  • Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3 486 49491 0 , page 328; on Max Kühn, ibid. Volume II, ISBN 3 486 52551 4 , page 334
  • Reichenberg. City and country in the Neißetal. A home book, edited by Dr.-Ing. Randolf Gränzer with the participation of many Heimatfreunde, published by Heimatkreis Reichenberg eV in the Heimatstube Reichenberg , Augsburg 1974, page 149

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Fanta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Heinrich Fanta on archiweb.cz (Czech), accessed on April 27, 2012
  2. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Kühn & Fanta (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  3. ↑ Arch-Pavouk: Heinrich Fanta (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  4. ↑ Arch-Pavouk: Max Kühn (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  5. ↑ Entry on Helmut Fanta on encyklopedie.brna.cz (Czech), accessed on June 28, 2012
  6. ↑ "German cultural life in Brno" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The old German Brno - a city as a legacy, accessed on April 27, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bruenn.org
  7. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Kaple U Obrázku (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  8. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Pavilion 1906 (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  9. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Villa Czjzek (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  10. ↑ Liberec - Josephinental Region (accessed June 27, 2020)
  11. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Textile Factory Liebieg (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  12. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Church of St. Antonius (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  13. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Villa Dr. Emil Tausche (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  14. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Church of St. Maria Magdalena (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
  15. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Kreditanstalt für Handel und Gewerbe (Czech) (accessed June 27, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Fanta, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1941
Place of death Brno